Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals) said that his country was preparing to set off its own experimental atom bomb "some place in Russia where it would not be dangerous to people or wildlife (see below) . . . Siberia, in the mountainous area of Russia, in the Arctic or in the islands north of Canada. . . Very likely members of the United Nations will be invited-in the same proportion as to the Crossroads test." "How soon?" asked goggle-eyed reporters. Said the professor: "In the measurable future...
Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...Marvita has just about time enough to complete her job this season. Soon the Arctic ice would seal in the Labrador coast for the winter...
Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...
...learned how tough obtaining bases in peacetime could be. It had suffered one defeat in Iceland, when the infant republic truculently asserted its neutrality, signed a trade treaty with Russia, and decided to keep both U.S. and U.S.S.R. military forces out of the island. Greenland, whose bases border the Arctic Circle, would be less trouble...